The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
- Directed by
- Stephen Hopkins
- Genre
- drama film, action film, horror film, adventure film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 1,155 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In 1898 Kenya, a military engineer leads the construction of a railway bridge. His work is threatened by two man-eating lions that prey on his workers.
tensesuspensefulhistoricalgrittybleakslow-burnvisceralominous
What happens
The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay, written by William Goldman, is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898. The film received mixed reviews and grossed $75 million against a production budget of $55 million. It won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for supervising sound editor Bruce Stambler. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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